Gender- and adolescent-responsive social protection: unleashing the potential of social protection for adolescent girls and women - ODI at CSW

Social protection can improve adolescent girls’ lives today and transform their futures.

This event is a chance to hear from leading voices in social protection how programmes can better address life course vulnerabilities and break inter-generational cycles of poverty. It will demonstrate the need for adolescent- and gender-responsive policy, programmes and research to build effective social protection systems.

Over the last decade, the understanding of adolescence as a critical window of opportunity to accelerate development has increased, yet social protection systems still do not systematically target the needs of adolescents, especially the promotion of gender equality. A new approach will ensure no girl or woman is left behind.

Speakers

Keynotes:

• Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State for the Commonwealth and United Nations, UK, @tariqahmadbt
• Ms. Henrietta E Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF, @unicefchief

Evidence:

• Dr Nicola Jones, Director of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme, and Principal Research Fellow, ODI, UK, @njonesODI 
• Dr Prerna Banati, Deputy Director A.I., UNICEF Innocenti, @pbanati 

In Conversation:

• H. E. Mrs. Yalem Tsegay Asfaw, Minister of Women and Children Affairs, Ethiopia
• H.E. Mrs. Basma Mousa Ishaqat, Minister of Social Development, Jordan
• Ms. Kamrun Nahar, Secretary, Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Bangladesh

Rapporteur:

• Dr Deepta Chopra, Research Fellow, IDS, UK

Moderator:

• Ms. Femi Oke, Journalist, @FemiOke